Posts from the “fascists” Category

Just in case you missed it, Elly Tams, aka Quiet Riot Girl, aka one of the very few people to have ever earned the dubious honour of being blocked from commenting here, has a piece up at the MRA site ‘A Voice for Men’ entitled “Leaving the Sisterhood.” And sorry but no, I’m not going to and never will link to that site, so if you want to read the piece you’ll have to let google be your friend. In the piece QRG uses up an awful lot of words to explain to the virulent misogynists who frequent the cesspit of hate that is A Voice for Men why she’s no longer a feminist – although evidence that she ever was a feminist is…

This is a guest post by Polly I’m often behind a trend, so it came as no surprise at about half past eight in the evening on Tuesday, to find out that I’d just witnessed the complete breakdown of western civilization as we know it, without even realising. AKA the Manchester riot I’d spotted the shops were closed in the centre of town at just before 7 when I got there, but apart from that it looked like a normal rush hour, and it was only when I got home that I was informed via various people who weren’t actually there that Market Street was in the grip of criminal mobs. Well Miss Selfridge was on fire actually – there goes my chance of…

This is a guest post by Polly 29th April – how was it for you? Possibly you were at a bit of a loose end if you’re the Syrian Ambassador, personally I spent the day cleaning. Some people however spent it residing in the cells at their local police station.

I know none of this will be news to anyone by now, but I thought I’d just recap on what a truly crappy week this has turned out to be. So here goes. Earlier this week it was announced that Eaves Housing/the Poppy Project has lost its funding to provide specialist support services to female victims of trafficking, and that the contract has gone instead to the anti-choice, homophobic, religious bigots of the Salvation Army. (More on this to follow). Official figures have revealed that women are bearing the brunt of the job losses in Britain’s labour market. David Willetts has said he’s buggered if he knows who to blame now. David Cameron has pulled out his dog whistle and blamed just about everything…

An interesting document has just been published on the UK Parliament website: Uncorrected transcript of oral evidence on the policing of the TUC march on 26th March 2011 Now UK Uncut and others have already accused the police of politically motivated arrests, but up until now it’s a charge the police have been keen to deny. Reading through that transcript though, it’s pretty clear that there were other motivations behind the arrests at Fortnum and Mason beyond simply clamping down on any ‘criminal activity.’ Here’s Lynne Owens, QPM MA, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, giving her evidence as to what took place on the day: “We did do, contrary to all the commentary, a fairly significant amount of pre-event work on known groups of people,…

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